Joseph Murray aka Toao and Valencia Wood aka V. Valentine started SOILSOUND in 2003. SOILSOUND is a boutique music production company, which brings awareness to sustainable and green lifestyles through our music and creations. We were reducing our carbon footprint before being sustainable, green and holistic became chic. The image of green is becoming sexy and it includes people who are current with what’s happening not only nationally, but internationally. They are culturally savvy and in tune with pop culture – turning their lives into green meccas – living in cities, suburbs and rural areas. We created the SOILSOUND CHRONICLES enhanced podcast in 2006 – a synergistic blend of chillout music from around the world, green destinations and good ideas for sustainable living.

We produce a variety of music. We have a diverse music catalog including World, Downtempo, Ambient, Orchestral, Nu Jazz, Broken Beat, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Country, Rock and beyond. SOILSOUND also produces music in the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound format. Our music is available for licensing for film, television, games and other interactive media, under SOILSOUND Music Publishing LLC. But even more interesting, SOILSOUND combined Downtempo, Soul and Hip-Hop to create a genre that we’ve coined as “Neo Lounge”.

More, we’re different – in a time when artists are forced into a prefab format of what someone else thinks they should be – SOILSOUND does not fit into that box and has ventured to build and design a company, which creates music that’s different and projects that stretch the creative fabric. SOILSOUND is the home of several commercial projects, which are available on iTunes under “Toao” and “mX”. Our fans and collaborative friends are spread throughout our global village. We strive to do our small part on this planet.

The music of SOILSOUND has been featured on various networks, including:

MTV | Discovery | Discovery Health | Biography | E! | NBC | Oxygen | Style | TLC | A&E

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